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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | barren |
| Synonyms: | austere, bare, blank, blighted, bombed, bulldozed, burned, chilly, cleared, cold, deforested, desert, deserted, desolate, dreary, exposed, flat, gaunt, grim, open, raw, scorched, stripped, unpopulated, unsheltered, weather-beaten, wild, windswept |
| Antonyms: | appealing, bright, comfortable, nice, pleasant, sunny |
| Main Entry: | austere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grim, barren |
| Synonyms: | bald, bare, bare-bones, bleak, clean, dour, plain, primitive, rustic, severe, simple, spare, spartan, stark, subdued, unadorned, unembellished, vanilla |
| Antonyms: | extravagant, luxurious |
| Main Entry: | bare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without covering or content |
| Synonyms: | arid, barren, blank, bleak, clear, desert, desolate, empty, lacking, mean, open, poor, scanty, scarce, stark, unfurnished, vacant, vacuous, void, wanting |
| Notes: | bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal |
| Antonyms: | covered, full |
Example Sentences
- In light of human population pressures and deforestation, the future appears bleak for the wild tiger.
- McCorkle paints a bleak picture that becomes all the more depressing if extended to its logical conclusion.
- Both the plot and the atmosphere of the film are extremely bleak.
| Main Entry: | biting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | piercing, sharp |
| Synonyms: | bitter, bleak, blighting, cold, crisp, cutting, freezing, harsh, nipping, penetrating, raw |
| Antonyms: | bland, calm, mild |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, doleful, dreary, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, horrible, lugubrious, mournful, ominous, oppressive, sad, sinister, sombre, threatening |
| Antonyms: | hopeful, optimistic |
| Main Entry: | cheerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | austere, black, bleak, blue, comfortless, dark, dejected, dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, dolorous, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, in the dumps, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mopey, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, tenebrific, uncomfortable, wintry, woebegone, woeful |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | chill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold, raw |
| Synonyms: | arctic, biting, bleak, brisk, chilly, cool, freezing, frigid, frosty, gelid, glacial, icy, nippy, sharp, wintry |
| Antonyms: | hot, warm |
| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chilly, freezing |
| Synonyms: | Siberian, algid, arctic, below freezing, below zero, benumbed, biting, bitter, blasting, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilled, cool, crisp, cutting, frigid, frore, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, have goose bumps, hawkish, hiemal, hyperborean, icebox, iced, icy, inclement, intense, keen, nipping, nippy, numbed, numbing, one-dog night, penetrating, piercing, polar, raw, rimy, severe, sharp, shivery, sleety, snappy, snowy, stinging, two-dog night, wintry |
| Antonyms: | hot, warm |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grim, hopeless |
| Synonyms: | bleak, cheerless, dismal, doleful, drab, foreboding, gloomy, joyless, morbid, morose, mournful, ominous, sinister, somber, unpropitious |
| Antonyms: | bright, brilliant, encouraging, hopeful, shining |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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